NYT π CluesβMon. 16 October, 2023
Clues for the New York Times Spelling Bee are generated daily by Ben Willenbring from his home in Brooklyn.
Letters: e a c i n t x
- Total Answers: 51
- Pangrams: 1
- Words revealed in these clues: None! π€£
AC
- AC6 β a special notice or importance given to something; to indicate the importance of by centering attention on; accentuation; emphasis; stress sounds like ascent, assent
- AC7 β sounds like agitate, annotate
- AC6 β sounds like ascetic
- AC4 β sounds like abbey, agony, algae, alley, and
AN
- AN7 β dating or surviving from the distant past; being of advanced years and especially past middle age; relating to or occurring near the beginning of a process, series, or time period; aged; age-old sounds like agent, ailment, enchant, infant, merchant
- AN5 β a smaller structure added to a main building; to join (something) to a mass, quantity, or number so as to bring about an overall increase; addition; extension; penthouse sounds like affix, apex, axe, flex, index
- AN4 β the amount of money that is demanded as payment for something; to give what is owed for; charge; cost; damage sounds like aunt, pantie, shanty
- AN7 β sounds like intend, intense, intent
- AN8 β
CA
- CA4 β a heavy rigid stick used as a weapon or for punishment; as in strap, leather; bastinado; bat; baton sounds like arraign, bane, chain
- CA6 β a domestic mammal that is related to the wolves and foxes; an abnormal state that disrupts a plant's or animal's normal bodily functioning; dog; doggy; hound sounds like benign, confine, consign, mainline, quinine
- CA7 β as in camp, club; as in pitcher, jug; as in locker, compartment; camp; club sounds like ante, antique
CE
- CE4 β of or relating to money, banking, or investments; financial; fiscal; monetary; pecuniary sounds like as**, assent, bent, dent, lent
- CE8 β sounds like citation, citizen, petition, solution, station
CI
- CI4 β to give as an example; to make reference to or speak about briefly but specifically; adduce; instance; mention sounds like bite, byte, eyesight, fight, height
EA
- EA5 β to take in as food; to consume or wear away gradually; to take a meal; consumed; ingested sounds like b*, eon, stun, ton
EN
- EN5 β to put into effect through legislative or authoritative action; constitute; lay down; legislate; make sounds like intact
- EN7 β as in entente cordiale; as in entente; as in ententes; entente cordiale; accord sounds like intent, intently
- EN6 β to lead away from a usual or proper course by offering some pleasure or advantage; allure; bait; beguile; betray
EX
- EX5 β being in agreement with the truth or a fact or a standard; being neither more nor less than a certain amount, number, or extent; following an original exactly; accurate; bang on sounds like enact
- EX6 β
- EX6 β to cause a pleasurable stimulation of the feelings; to rouse to strong feeling or action; charge; electrify; exhilarate sounds like incite, insight
- EX4 β a person who manages or directs something; administrant; administrator; archon; director sounds like egghead, eggshell
- EX4 β a place or means of going out; the act of leaving a place; the permanent stopping of all the vital bodily activities; egress; issue sounds like grit
- EX6 β having being at the present time; existing or in progress right now; alive; around; existent sounds like distant, ecstasy, instant, mustn't, sexton
- EX6 β a real or imaginary point beyond which a person or thing cannot go; a wide space or area; an area over which activity, capacity, or influence extends; bound; boundary
- EX7 β no longer existing; bygone; bypast; dead; defunct sounds like instinct
IN
- IN5 β having no meaning; as in vacuum; empty; meaningless; pointless
- IN6 β to bring (something volatile or intense) into being; to rouse to strong feeling or action; abet; brew; ferment sounds like excite
- IN7 β not precisely correct; not being in agreement with what is true; approximate; approximative; ballpark sounds like exact
- IN8 β to be responsible for the creation and early operation or use of; to impart knowledge of a new thing or situation to; to put into an office or welcome into an organization with special ceremonies; begin; constitute
- IN6 β being a part of the innermost nature of a person or thing; built-in; constitutional; constitutive; essential sounds like elate
- IN5 β sounds like any, eerie, guinea, iffy, itchy
- IN6 β something that one hopes or intends to accomplish; the idea that is conveyed or intended to be conveyed to the mind by language, symbol, or action; fully committed to achieving a goal; aim; ambition
NE
- NE4 β being clean and in good order; free from added matter; of the very best kind; antiseptic; bandbox sounds like beat, beet, cheat, eat, feat
- NE6 β to make neat; pick up; redd (up or out); spruce (up); straighten (up or out) sounds like beaten, eaten
- NE4 β sounds like bean, dean, gene, keen, knead
- NE4 β being the one that comes immediately after another; as in then, later; as in alongside, next to; coming; ensuing sounds like text
NI
- NI4 β following the established traditions of refined society and good taste; giving pleasure or contentment to the mind or senses; hard to please; befitting; correct sounds like dice, ice, knife, knight, lice
- NI5 β sounds like cease, knead, knee, kneel, lease
- NI4 β as in last word, hot ticket; as in last words, hot tickets; as in wage earner, wage slave; buzz; chic sounds like been, bin, chin, din, fin
- NI8 β
- NI4 β sounds like bite, byte, cite, fight, height
TA
- TA5 β sounds like facet
TE
- TE4 β sounds like beat, beet, cheat, eat, feat
- TE4 β someone who is between 13 and 19 years old; preteen; preteen-ager; subteen; teenager sounds like bean, dean, gene, keen, lean
- TE6 β as in lease, rent; one who rents a room or apartment in another's house; one who lives permanently in a place; lease; rent sounds like pennant
- TE5 β an idea that is very important to a group; precept; principle; rule; standard sounds like senate
- TE4 β as in sleep out; a raised covering over something for decoration or protection; sleep out; bivouac; camp (out) sounds like bent, cent, dent, lent, meant
- TE4 β a book used for instruction in a subject; handbook; manual; primer; textbook sounds like next, taxed
TI
- TI4 β as in prong; prong; pinpoint; barb; jag sounds like dine, fine, line, mine, pine